Organization

Precision Strike at APL employs people with appropriate skills, interests, and experience from across APL, most of whom are members of APL's Force Projection Department (FPD).

FPD hosts two mission-focused organizations (Precision Strike and Strategic Deterrence). Although there is a broad mix of disciplines within Precision Strike, most of the professional staff are engineers or scientists. Formal education levels range from bachelor's degrees to Ph.D.s. A large number of staff have previous military or industry experience.

Most of the staff who support Precision Strike programs have education, skills, experience, and expertise in the following disciplines:

Physics
Mathematics
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Systems Engineering
Computer Science
Computer Engineering

These staff members engage in the full range of system development, including:

Concept development
Prototyping
System requirements

Software development
System integration
System testing and evaluation

Some of the technical specialties of the staff working in Precision Strike are as follows: